Re: Code Completion suggestion
Re: Code Completion suggestion
- Subject: Re: Code Completion suggestion
- From: "John W. Baxter" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:39:23 -0700
On 10/26/2004 18:21, "Phill Smith" <email@hidden> wrote:
> thanks for all the feed back.
> I don't see why the script editor can't read and parse the text of the
> script, find the application or script object references then taking
> information from the tell block of from th e apostrophe notation.
> Interrogate the dictionary or the script objects and come up with a
> list of elements and properties.
> There may be a speed problem but I don't see why there is a technical
> problem. It may require a more structured script using tell blocks or
> apostrophes but thats OK
Script Editor "knows" very little about AppleScript. It takes text, hands
it to AppleScript to be compiled, then asks AppleScript to send back the
nicely formatted text. (If one tells the Script Editor to edit some other
OSA language, it does the same thing, with as much knowledge of the
language.) If it wants to execute, it hands the compiler output to
AppleScript to be executed (I'm leaving out a layer which it might actually
use in this step).
You're talking about a very different editor, which not only understands the
language it's working with but also overcomes the various problems others
have mentioned.
Prognosis: highly unlikely.
--John
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